My brother and I inherited our grandmother's house after she died last spring, and we both want to keep it but for completely different reasons — he sees it as an investment, I see it as the last place she laughed with us — and we're stuck between honoring her memory and being practical about our own lives.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are discovering that grief creates different relationships to what remains, and both feel responsible for carrying forward something precious in incompatible ways.
“Where Are You with The gift of mortality — what loss teaches about being alive?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.